Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

No one ever indoctrinated me.

The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue. You have to have courage - courage of different kinds: first, intellectual courage, to sort out different values and make up your mind about which is the one which is right for you to follow. You have to have moral courage to stick up to that - no matter what comes in your way, no matter what the obstacle and the opposition is.

My husband lived in Lucknow. My father lived in Delhi, of course. So I shuttled between Delhi and Lucknow and...naturally, if my husband needed me on days when I was in Delhi, I ran back to Lucknow. But if it was my father who needed me, on the days when I was in Lucknow. And...yes, my husband got angry. And he quarreled. We quarreled. We quarreled a lot. It's true.

Even I, when I was a student in London, often wore Western clothes, and yet I'm the most Indian Indian I know.